57 Fairlane in Cuba today

[lalessi1]

A friend posted a picture of a relative's childhood home while in Cuba last week.....

[Limey57]

I watched a programme about Cuba not so long ago and a lot of the cars are running 4-pot motors (and suspension in some cases) taken from Russian and far-Eastern cars.  The ingenuity of some of the guys was admirable, the quality of some of the upgrades was questionable!!!!  It does make me wonder if they will now start to disappear from the roads now the US restrictions are being lifted.  Somehow the streets won't look the same filled with modern rubbish..........

[Ecode70D]

I watched a programme about Cuba not so long ago and a lot of the cars are running 4-pot motors (and suspension in some cases) taken from Russian and far-Eastern cars.  The ingenuity of some of the guys was admirable, the quality of some of the upgrades was questionable!!!!  It does make me wonder if they will now start to disappear from the roads now the US restrictions are being lifted.  Somehow the streets won't look the same filled with modern rubbish..........

    I know what you are saying.

[SkylinerRon]

With salaries around $20/mo i don't see many buying new cars.
cuba's only industries were tourism and sugar cane until 1959 when
castro killed them, not too many russians could afford to vacation in havana......

Ron.

[Zapato]

And those cars won't come cheap, they're not just a car but a business and believe it or not 20K is about what it takes to buy one, most are financed by Miami relatives.

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